July 06 mamas, August thread - Page 8

[lovingmommyhood]

Originally Posted by 1stTimeMummytoLore

we are rolling over!!!! it was sooo cute. illyria rolled over yesterday morning for the first time and by that afternoon finn was doing it too-- like he wasn't about to let his "little" sister show him up. i wonder how many other things they'll do at the same time?? ah the competitive nature of twins...

Congrats!! Harry also rolled over. In the bathtub!! I was obviously sitting right there with him and I had just drained the inch of water out that I bathed him in and over he went. I guess it's easier to roll when you're slippery & naked!!

[aydensmama]

OMG.... I just had 7.5 hours of uninterupted sleep and I feel wonderful!

My ds slept from 9pm to 5:30am, so he went from 8:15pm to 5:30am before eating! I thought I had died and not heard him or something when I realized I was still asleep at 5:25am

I know that the chances of this continuing might be slim, but I am hoping!

[elsanne]

OH, Aydensmama, enjoy it! Wahoo for good sleep!

Amara has woken once a night for the past three nights...wow. While that has been good, overall mamas this is soooo friccin HARD. Not so much the newborn thing, and actually she's not newborn any more (whoa, when did that happen?: ) but the two kids thing. Their dad does not live with me so virtually I'm single-mom-in' it. It blows me away.

[PancakeGoddess]

omg, speaking of snappis. I had 4-5 and now they are ALL MISSING. ARGH!

[Quagmire]

I am soooo jealous of all you once a night people...

DD goes to bed between 7 and 8, and does her long stretch then. She usually gets up around 2 to eat and then she's up every 2 hours after that. Unfortunately I am not ready for bed when she is, though I do try to get to sleep before 10.

The worst though is DD has been really gassy or something the past few nights. So she's actually rousing a bit every 30 minutes to grunt, fart, snore or generally make a disturbance : Fortunately DH isn't waking up as often as I am. I can't figure out what I might be eating that is making her so restless but I'm ready to go to plain chicken and rice for a little uninterrupted sleep!

DD has also been doing all of her major pooping between 3 and 5am. This morning she pooped all the way up her back into her hair. We have her sleeping on a towel because she often spits up or I leak. Thank goodness for the towel - while she soaked through it, at least we didn't hit the mattress. Poop was EVERYWHERE. I barely knew where to begin... I just picked her up in the towel and brought her directly to the tub where I held her under the water to rinse everything off. She managed to pee on me too while I was waiting for the water to get warm... *sigh*

[elsanne]

Quag--name is fitting for that episode, eh? Wow, what a poopy mess! Into her HAIR?? wow.

[luckymama]

Originally Posted by PancakeGoddess

omg, speaking of snappis. I had 4-5 and now they are ALL MISSING. ARGH!

yeah - here, too. actually, i think the cats are stealing them for toys. i just ordered 3 more w/ my additional dozen prefolds.

[aydensmama]

Ok, so two of my friends have asked today...is he allowed to sleep that long? They say their doctor never let them allow their babies to sleep that long at this age.

background: 5 weeks old, gaining weight (not sure of how much, we don't do doctors appointments regularly at all), and eating 7-8 times a day (lots of milk and long nursing sessions between 20 and 45 minutes a day)

AND he is making up for it today I will tell you! We nursed at 5:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:40, 11:55, and all of those were 40+ minutes except for the 10:40am! WOW!

So this is ok right????? Should I wake him in the night if he continues to do this?

elsanne- I second the two kids being soooooo hard! I constantly mutter under my breath when trying to accomplish anything besides hanging out in diapers and jammies at the house playing "this is so freaking hard"!!!!

[sewaneecook]

Aydensmama - My DS has been a great sleeper from the beginning ... I regularly get 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep (he's quite the chunk, so he has no problem eating!). If your DS is gaining and nursing well, I'd say enjoy the sleep. If there's a problem with weight gain, you would want to wake up the babe to eat. I've found that most peds don't know squat about BFing, so it's hard to trust them sometimes.

[MsGrizzle]

My LC said if he is gaining fine and has enough wet diapers, not to bother waking him up. Enjoy it!

[Quagmire]

Originally Posted by sewaneecook

Aydensmama - My DS has been a great sleeper from the beginning ... I regularly get 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep (he's quite the chunk, so he has no problem eating!). If your DS is gaining and nursing well, I'd say enjoy the sleep. If there's a problem with weight gain, you would want to wake up the babe to eat. I've found that most peds don't know squat about BFing, so it's hard to trust them sometimes.

ITA, especially the don't know squat remark... *sigh* Sounds like you got lucky with the sleep Aydensmama!


Speaking of sleeping and feeding, here's an interesting tidbit - a friend of mine has twins, one of whom is growing really well. When they hit 8 weeks her ped told her the thriving twin shouldn't be eating at night anymore, and if she woke up they shouldn't feed her : Thankfully my friend knows this is BS advice and ignored it. This same woman used to be our pediatrician but for obvious reasons, is not anymore

Scary though. I think peds tell parents this kind of stuff to let them off the hook... "it's ok to ignore your baby's needs now, they are big enough" or whatever. And so many parents take what their ped says as The Word of The Pediatrician So It's OK To Do X Now. Very frustrating :

[lotus.blossom]

I can't believe I missed this thread! I found it last night and read while Lochlan screamed on my lap. Poor baby! Fortunately for about 95% of his crying I usually have a solution (he's either got a burp hiding in there or he is so tired that he refuses to go to sleep)

Anyway, Sue I wanted to mention that I use prefolds snappi's and proraps and have never had an explosion. I roll the edges of my prefold. I find that to be the tightest fit and it always contains the poop. I rarely get a speck on the gusset of the prorap.

I hear Lochlan cooing I better go grab him. He's in his Papasan in the living room and I hear the young and the restless coming on the tv. Terrible thing to subject to a baby! :

[Laurel]

Thanks for the welcome everybody. It's hard to find time to post.

Fenwickmama, yes I do recognize you from the adoption boards.

Yin Yang, no I"m not taking any medications to induce lactation, just herbs. There are times when I question that decision, since I'm not making very much milk and the SNS really is a pain. But I just never felt right about the meds.

Well, my baby seems to be turning a corner. Saturday she slept literally the entire day and night. She's wake (or I'd wake her) every 3-4 hours to eat. I was getting really freaked out because she doesn't take very much supplement, I have absolutely no idea how much breastmilk she's getting, and it takes her forever to eat. She supposedly had weight gain issues at the beginning (slow gaining), and I was just so worried. I kept reading all my books trying to decide if she was FTT (even though she showed no symptoms of it). By Sunday morning I was so freaked out I was ready to take her to insta-care just so they could weigh her and I would know where we stood. My dh convinced me to wait until Monday.

So yesterday I took her to the dr. It wasn't our regular dr because he's on vacation. She weighs 7 lb 4 oz and has gained just over a pound since birth. The new doctor says her weight is fine, and he doesn't think she ever had issues in the first place. So I've been worrying for an entire month for no reason. I could tell that he was wondering why on earth I was even bringing her in.

So her weight's fine--she just happens to be a tiny baby. And yesterday she finally decided to perk up and stop sleeping so much. It's like she's changed overnight. We'll see if it lasts. I can see such a difference in her, as if she's finally made that transition from newborn to baby.

It's amazing to me that I could work myself up into such paranoia when there wasn't anything wrong in the first place. I can't even blame our regular doctor, because I honestly think that I just took things he said, such as "Let's just keep checking her weight regularly to make sure she's gaining well", and ran with them, turning things into a much bigger deal than they were. Does anybody else do this too? What is it about new motherhood that brings out such fear?

[Yin Yang]

Laurel - I personally never experience that kind of fear you are talking about. Perhaps you have it because you did not grow that baby in your body so you did not have a chance to "get to know her" - if that make sense. So you are probably more freaked out about things happening to her then anyone else. Plus she is a small baby, so it probably makes things worse. You'll learn to trust your instinct as she grows

I am impressed with how many babies here are sleeping so well!! Mine including......

Hugs to mamas not having as much luck as we do.


Can anyone fill me in here with something? It's probably stupid question, but I have no idea what KEGELS are? I know it's some kind of a excersize, but don't know what exactly......

[sewaneecook]

Originally Posted by Yin Yang

Can anyone fill me in here with something? It's probably stupid question, but I have no idea what KEGELS are? I know it's some kind of a excersize, but don't know what exactly......

It's an exercise of the PC muscle ... the one that starts and stops the flow of urine. It's good for incontinence (esp late in PGcy and after!) and it's also fun while DTD. If you want more info on it, do a Google search.

[elsanne]

Laurel I think any new mom, adoptive or no, freaks out the way you are. This is #2 for me and the difference is HUGE in terms of how much, or rather how little, I am freaking out. With my first, every little thing!

Also your babe WAS just a wee thang and they do sleep all the time when they are so little in size...sleeping is when they do the most growing.

I am still kegeling like crazy, every night as I put the girls to bed. It's my routine and the way I can remember to do it.

Lotus blossom, good to "see" you. Your baby IS one of the "young and the restless"

[Laurel]

Laurel I think any new mom, adoptive or no, freaks out the way you are.

See, this is actually my second child. I don't remember worrying this much with my first. I know her size has a lot to do with it. There are issues related to her adoption--we found out last week that she was exposed to several drugs, alcohol, smoking, etc probably the entire time she was in the womb, so I have concerns about the ramifications of those things (and slow weight gain, sleepiness, are potential results of prenatal drug exposure).

I know I've heard other moms express anxiety too. I think there's something about having a tiny little baby that makes me, at least, feel a little vulnerable myself.

[lovingmommyhood]

Okay this is a rather gross TMI post-partum question but is anybody else still bleeding!? I have very very light spotting, not even pad worthy but soooo annoying. DS is 7 weeks old. Am I alone?

[SabbathD]

Originally Posted by lovingmommyhood

Okay this is a rather gross TMI post-partum question but is anybody else still bleeding!? I have very very light spotting, not even pad worthy but soooo annoying. DS is 7 weeks old. Am I alone?

Nope not alone. I actually stopped for a week or two and it's back now.

[CalebsMama05]

hey girls no time to read through...still alive and still here...working tho...its great...J still gets up 3-4x a night which is hard...